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Advances in Teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers' Live
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Advances in Teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers' LiveAdvances in Teacher Emotion Research: The Impact on Teachers' Live

Some reports estimate that nearly 50% of teachers entering the profession leave within the first five years (Alliance for Excellent Education 2004; Ingersoll, 2003; Quality Counts 2000). One explanation of why teachers leave the profession so early in their career might be related to the emotional nature of the teaching profession. For example, teaching is an occupation that involves considerable emotional labor. Emotional labor involves the effort, planning, and control teachers need to express organizationally desired emotions during interpersonal transactions.
 
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Careers for Self-Starters & Other Entrepreneurial Types
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Careers for Self-Starters & Other Entrepreneurial TypesCareers for Self-Starters & Other Entrepreneurial Types

The inspiring Careers for You series encourages career explorers to examine the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. Includes:
* The latest information on training and education
* Tips on transforming hobbies into job skills
* Stories of success from each field
* Expert advice on finding and getting the job
* Advice on competing in hot job markets
 
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Encyclopedia of Bioethics
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Encyclopedia of BioethicsEncyclopedia of Bioethics

This is an excellent book that a teacher can use in discussing sensitive topics in bioethics such as abortion, cloning, euthanasia and stem cell research. In its 3rd edition, the 457 entries were all updated.

 
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The Sublime (The New Critical Idiom)
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The Sublime (The New Critical Idiom)The Sublime (The New Critical Idiom)

Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at:
the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity
 
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Current Diagnosis and Treatment Emergency Medicine
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CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Emergency MedicineCURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment Emergency Medicine

The essential problem-oriented guide to all diseases that present to the emergency department-now updated and expanded! Concise, accurate coverage of common emergency problems, organized by organ system/anatomic region-and ideally suited to the fast-paced ER Cohesive priority-based and problem-based organization that reviews special aspects of emergency medicine
 
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